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Dr.
Randal Pinkett has established himself as an entrepreneur, speaker,
author and community servant. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of BCT Partners, a
multimillion-dollar consulting firm based in Newark, NJ, that
specializes in program management, information technology and public
policy. BCT Partners is a minority-owned and operated company and one
of the leading firms in the country with expertise in the following
industries: housing and community development, economic development,
healthcare, human services and education. Dr. Pinkett was also named
the winner of NBC’s hit reality television show, The Apprentice,
with Donald Trump. He was selected as one of 18 candidates chosen from
among 1 million applicants to compete for the opportunity to run one of
Donald Trump’s companies.

Prior to founding BCT Partners, Dr. Pinkett
gained corporate experience as a Member of Technical Staff at General
Electric, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Lucent Technologies. Dr.
Pinkett holds five degrees including: a Bachelor of Science in
Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, that he completed while
serving as captain of the men's track and field team as a high jumper
and long jumper; a Master of Science in Computer Science from the
University of Oxford in England; and a Master of Science in Electrical
Engineering, MBA, and Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT). In 2009, Dr. Pinkett was named to New Jersey Governor Jon
Corzine’s official shortlist as a potential running mate for Lieutenant
Governor of New Jersey.

Dr. Pinkett has received numerous awards
including the following: National Society of Black
Engineers–Entrepreneur of the Year Award, National Urban League–Business
Excellence Award, Information Technology Senior Management Forum–Beacon
Award, and he has been recognized by USA TODAY newspaper as
one of the top 20 scholars in the country. Also, Dr. Pinkett has been
featured on nationally televised programs such as The Today Show,
Live with Regis and Kelly, Nightline and Larry
King Live. He has served as a brand ambassador for Verizon
Communications and Outback Steakhouse, and as a national spokesperson
for Autism Speaks, the National Black MBA Association, the Miller Urban
Entrepreneurs Series, New Jersey Reads, Junior Achievement of New York,
and the Minority Information Technology Consortium. Most notably, Dr.
Pinkett was the first and only African-American to receive a Rhodes
Scholarship at Rutgers University.

Born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey,
Dr. Pinkett attends First Baptist Church in Somerset, NJ, where he
resides. He is happily married to his wife, Zahara, and they are both
proud parents of their daughter, Amira. Dr. Pinkett firmly believes
that “to whom much is given, much is expected,” so throughout his
endeavors he places great emphasis on his desire to give back to the
community.

Black Faces in Whites
Places:
10 Strategies for African Americans to Redefine the Game and Reshape
America Buy Now

By Howard
Rich
The nomination of John Bryson as Barack Obama’s new Secretary of
Commerce has been touted in some circles as “the latest in a recent
string of moves by the Obama administration to mend relations with the
business community.”

But is the selection of Bryson — who founded a radical environmental
organization and helped spearhead the United Nations climate change
movement — really a good choice for American businesses? Or is his
nomination the latest example of Obama’s commitment to a massive
expansion of “world welfare” — one that would further bankrupt our
Treasury and place additional strain on our taxpayers?

By now, it has become abundantly clear that the real goal of the
left-wing eco-radicals has nothing to do with climate change — and
everything to do with international wealth redistribution on an
unprecedented scale. Sadly, this goal has been enthusiastically embraced
by the Obama administration — as Bryson’s nomination once again
demonstrates.

At a 2009 conference leading up to the UN climate change summit in
Copenhagen, Bryson proposed the establishment of training programs and a
new global law enforcement regime aimed at blocking poor nations from
using their forest resources. In fact, funding for this massive
undertaking was part of the “global climate tax” approved at Copenhagen —
a radical wealth redistribution scheme which hopes to siphon $100
billion a year from America and other countries to developing nations by
the end of the decade.
Get full story here.

That’s a total “stimulus” of $7.646 trillion for FY 2008-2011. So,
what have we gotten for all that borrowing, spending, and money
printing?

Let’s be generous and assume that by Sep. 2011, the nominal Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) will have increased to $15.376 trillion, which
assumes exactly the same nominal growth as last year Q3 to Q3. In Sep.
2007, the GDP stood at $14.158 trillion. So, there has been total
nominal growth $1.218 trillion since then.
Therefore, a “stimulus” of $7.646 trillion will have only generated
growth of $1.218 trillion by the end of this fiscal year. Put another
way, for every $6.27 borrowed, spent, and printed, the government
achieved $1 of growth. Or, for every dollar borrowed, spent, and
printed, there was 15.9 cents of growth — a measly .159 Keynesian
multiplier.
Get full story here.

The first myth is that all (or at least the lion’s share) of the
projected Medicare savings from ObamaCare over the next ten years will
come from combating waste, fraud and abuse and not in reductions to
seniors’ services and benefits.

The reality is that this is so far from the truth that it deserves
the title of a myth. According to the actuaries at the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) who first projected the $575
billion savings for Medicare over the next ten years, only
a tiny fraction of these projected savings — $4.9 billion — would be
realized under the category “Fight waste, fraud and abuse.” To
suggest otherwise is to perpetrate a myth but this seems to be one that
Harry Reid and the rest of the Democrats that he speaks for want you to
believe.
The second myth is that projected Medicare savings from ObamaCare
will be used to shore up the Hospital Insurance trust fund (HI) and keep
Medicare solvent for twelve more years. Here Harry Reid is hoping
that you won’t remember the double-counting debate of a year ago.
Get full story here.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The bodies were removed many months ago, but the
stench of them still clings to the boarded-up house on Imperial Avenue.

The
smell surfaces every so often: a reminder of the horrors that unfolded
here in November 2009, when police began pulling the remains of 11 women
from the depths of this rundown white duplex on an impoverished
Cleveland street.

"Every once in a while you can hear people
saying ... 'What's that smell?,'" says Tracy Chapman, who lives across
the street.

The murder trial gets under way Monday for Anthony
Sowell, 51, a convicted sex offender and ex-Marine charged with killing
the women and hiding their remains in his home and backyard. The trial,
expected to last several weeks, will force Cleveland residents to
revisit a dark chapter in the city's history that most would rather
forget. Prosecutors say Sowell, who has pleaded not guilty, lured women
from the neighborhood into his home with the promise of alcohol or
drugs, then killed them.

Nearly 180
passwords belonging to members of an Atlanta-based FBI
partner organization have been stolen and leaked to the Internet, the
group confirmed Sunday.

The logins
belonged to members of the local chapter of InfraGard, a public-private
partnership devoted to sharing information about threats to U.S.
physical and Internet infrastructure, the chapter's president told The
Associated Press.

The House
voted Friday to require President
Obama to swiftly report to Congress the rationale behind continued U.S.
military engagement in Libya,
launching a potential showdown over federal funding for the NATO-led
operation.

Amid mounting antiwar sentiment in Congress, the House voted 268 to 145
for the resolution, which also said that the administration failed to
make its case for military action as required by the authority of the
War Powers Act.

Imagine what your reaction would be if the
Mexican government agreed to pay Barack Obama $1.4 billion to deploy US
troops and armored vehicles to New York, Los Angeles and Chicago to
conduct military operations, set up check points, and engage in
fire-fights that end up killing 35,000 US civilians on the streets of
American cities.
If the Mexican government treated the United States like this, would you
consider them a friend or an enemy?
This is exactly how the US is treating Mexico, and it's been going on
since 2006.
America's Mexican policy--The Merida Initiative--is a nightmare. It's
undermined Mexican sovereignty, corrupted the political system, and
militarized the country. It's also resulted in the violent deaths of
thousands of mostly poor civilians. But Washington doesn't give a hoot
about "collateral damage" as long as it can sell more weaponry,
strengthen its free-trade regime, and sluice more drug profits into its
big banks. Then everything is just Jim-dandy.
There's no point in dignifying this butchery by calling it a "War on
Drugs"?
That's nonsense. What we're seeing is a giant powergrab by big business,
big finance and the US Intel services. Read Full Story

June 6 (Today's News NJ)- Five U.S. soldiers were killed in central Iraq on
Monday, the U.S. military said in a statement.
The statement did not give further details about how or where exactly
the five were killed.

"The names of the deceased and details of the incident are being
withheld pending notification of next of kin," the statement said.

The death toll of U.S. soldiers, who have been killed in Iraq since
the war broke out in 2003, rose to about 4,459, according to media count
based on Pentagon figures.

In mid 2010, U.S. troops in Iraq had been reduced to below 50, 000
soldiers. Washington said that the remaining U.S. troops in Iraq are
conducting support and training missions.

U.S. military forces are to pull out completely from Iraq by the end
of 2011 according to the security pact named Status of Forces Agreement,
or SOFA, signed late in 2008 between Baghdad and Washington.

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